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brennan as the next director of the cia john brennan has been in charge of some of obama's most controversial policies including the targeted assassinations. program one where the administration determines who will be marked for execution without any due process oversight or transparency is the man who's been in charge of president obama's kill list last year john brennan claimed that the u.s. drone program caused no civilian deaths in pakistan over the prior year which was an outright lie by so many pounds add to that the fact that as a bush era cia official mr brennan had indorsed torture and rendition and also was a vocal advocate of bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program and we can see why he is deemed fit for the job as the head of the central intelligence agency which over the years has evolved into a paramilitary force the logic some see behind nominating hago and brennan for these top national security positions is that when accused of being the president can say does my defense secretary lew kokesh to you if we choose the being soft he can point out his new cia directo
brennan as the next director of the cia john brennan has been in charge of some of obama's most controversial policies including the targeted assassinations. program one where the administration determines who will be marked for execution without any due process oversight or transparency is the man who's been in charge of president obama's kill list last year john brennan claimed that the u.s. drone program caused no civilian deaths in pakistan over the prior year which was an outright lie by...
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i served nine cia director john brennan would have to be the worst. he is an open add because of what is called extraordinary rendition kidnapping torture black prisons illegal eavesdropping and hillis from these drone that they're so proud of flying over places like hockey style and almost compelled to conclude that there is really. real profit corporations in the profiteering on these and less wars and in contrast to this the nomination for defense secretary that is very different in character in nature seen by many as a pacifist what do you make of the future of u.s. foreign policy if indeed haig will go to his top man in the defense child the difference between hale and his predecessors is this a girl who's been there done that ok hagel served in war he was an infantry noncommissioned officer wounded twice to two purple hearts he knows what war is like that means the difference and when haig will says he would be very very careful about employing our forces in fool's errands such as afghanistan god help us iraq he's going to be a worry stand up ag
i served nine cia director john brennan would have to be the worst. he is an open add because of what is called extraordinary rendition kidnapping torture black prisons illegal eavesdropping and hillis from these drone that they're so proud of flying over places like hockey style and almost compelled to conclude that there is really. real profit corporations in the profiteering on these and less wars and in contrast to this the nomination for defense secretary that is very different in...
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brennan for director of the central intelligence agency chuck hagel is the leader that our troops deserve. former republican senator chuck hagel of nebraska is also a vietnam veteran with two purple hearts but his nomination is making some waves and he is expected to receive a barrage of harsh questions on several issues during his nomination process now back in two thousand and two despite voting in favor of allowing the united states to invade iraq then senator hagel listed several reasons why it was a bad idea even predicting many things that could go wrong many view that anti interventionist stance as unpatriotic even today but perhaps the biggest controversy stems from a position that he holds that can be summed up by something he said back in two thousand and six he said quote i'm a united states senator not an israeli senator he said i mean i support israel but my first interest is i take an oath of office to the constitution of the united states not to a president not to a party and not to israel if i go run for senate in israel i'll do just that now critics have called this state
brennan for director of the central intelligence agency chuck hagel is the leader that our troops deserve. former republican senator chuck hagel of nebraska is also a vietnam veteran with two purple hearts but his nomination is making some waves and he is expected to receive a barrage of harsh questions on several issues during his nomination process now back in two thousand and two despite voting in favor of allowing the united states to invade iraq then senator hagel listed several reasons...
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the us president barack obama has put forward his current top counterterrorism adviser john brennan as a new head of the cia he's also announced the maverick conservative chuck hagel is his choice for defense secretary to talk more on the president's choices i'm joined now live by perspective historian journalist gareth porter he's there in washington that's for sort of all talk about brennan now he could take over the cia or cia after the departure of scandal hit david petraeus what challenges would he be facing if he did take the top job. well i think one has to begin with the problem that brennan brings to the cha job at the cia which is that he has a reputation. for not having been very forthcoming with regard to his public statements president or background statements even to the press with regard to both the drone war in pakistan that's on one hand and perhaps less known the the bin laden raid of last year of excuse me a year year and a half ago this was an occasion where you had a white house official unnamed who told really what amounted to a pack of lies about the what happene
the us president barack obama has put forward his current top counterterrorism adviser john brennan as a new head of the cia he's also announced the maverick conservative chuck hagel is his choice for defense secretary to talk more on the president's choices i'm joined now live by perspective historian journalist gareth porter he's there in washington that's for sort of all talk about brennan now he could take over the cia or cia after the departure of scandal hit david petraeus what challenges...
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brennan for director of the central intelligence agency. cagle is a republican which has a lot of progress is confused as to why president obama would nominate someone from across the aisle to head up the pentagon i believe there's some sort of strategy here behind the president's choice clearly the pentagon's budget needs to be cut bloated and wasteful but democrats who historically have been scared to death to looking soft on defense don't have the courage to do it which might be why the president has picked a republican to oversee the defense budget and hopefully down the road make some much needed cuts president is making the calculation that only republican can get away with cutting defense heads behavioral choice it's called the nixon to china effect only republican richard nixon could have gotten away with visiting communist china the democrat would have been roasted by republicans for doing the same thing that's what i think is happening here sure there's a lot of reasons to be uneasy about republican chuck hagel heading up the defe
brennan for director of the central intelligence agency. cagle is a republican which has a lot of progress is confused as to why president obama would nominate someone from across the aisle to head up the pentagon i believe there's some sort of strategy here behind the president's choice clearly the pentagon's budget needs to be cut bloated and wasteful but democrats who historically have been scared to death to looking soft on defense don't have the courage to do it which might be why the...
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president barack obama has put forward his current counter terrorism adviser john brennan as the new head of the cia he's also announced maverick conservative chuck hagel as his choice for defense secretary will talk more on the president's choices i'm joined now live by u.s. army colonel macgregor well as a retired u.s. army colonel are you happy the country's security will be in safe hands if he gets his way oh absolutely no question about it particularly regarding senator hagel why. well there are a number of things first of all hago has been a very effective and strong critic of the interventions over the last several years and the mismanagement of our policies and the squandering of blood and treasure on missions that make no sense strategically for the united states asked for years that's what subset large numbers of people who have supported bad decisions the decision to intervene and then occupy iraq and then to transform the initial operation in afghanistan into a nation building mission being right those were disasters and i think that's one of the reasons that people on th
president barack obama has put forward his current counter terrorism adviser john brennan as the new head of the cia he's also announced maverick conservative chuck hagel as his choice for defense secretary will talk more on the president's choices i'm joined now live by u.s. army colonel macgregor well as a retired u.s. army colonel are you happy the country's security will be in safe hands if he gets his way oh absolutely no question about it particularly regarding senator hagel why. well...
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brennan the guy who pioneered drone work for a broader really pioneered the bush wiretapping his kind of overseeing that whole thing and really combining the two i mean how do you see the next four years with him as cia director well one of the big problems is going to be we as a country have spoken out against other countries that conduct pervasive surveillance countries like china egypt tunisia that really are heavy into the surveillance of their citizens and it's really going to be a question of does the united states have any place to stand when they're using drones to surveil their own citizens to surveil people in the united states not only drones but fusion centers all of these other programs we're losing credibility in are against these the truths of programs and we really need to. use the bondage from an epic thank you so much for coming thank you. so guys think about it in the coming years they'll be tens of thousands of these robots of all shapes and sizes flying in our skies shaping an ever more well we in the society so are we just going to roll over and accept our fate t
brennan the guy who pioneered drone work for a broader really pioneered the bush wiretapping his kind of overseeing that whole thing and really combining the two i mean how do you see the next four years with him as cia director well one of the big problems is going to be we as a country have spoken out against other countries that conduct pervasive surveillance countries like china egypt tunisia that really are heavy into the surveillance of their citizens and it's really going to be a...
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point that we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who i think is someone who the israelis are just fine with who will continue many of the covert programs of course our drone program but many of the covert programs that would be under his under his authority at the cia and that will be very much to israel's liking that will serve to undermine any attempts or any possibilities for a real coming to terms of the islamic republic of iran. there is an argument often made in washington that bashar al assad's fall would be a strategic victory against iran what can you say about an approach like that first of all at this point iran's most important arab ally is no longer syria it's iraq thanks in no small part to the united states iran's most important strategic ally in the arab world is iraq even in syria you know bashar al assad is still i don't know is imminent and even if you reach a point where he might feel like he needs to abandon damascus or something like this you're going to still have big chunks of syria that are effectively under good control of his government under hi
point that we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who i think is someone who the israelis are just fine with who will continue many of the covert programs of course our drone program but many of the covert programs that would be under his under his authority at the cia and that will be very much to israel's liking that will serve to undermine any attempts or any possibilities for a real coming to terms of the islamic republic of iran. there is an argument often made in washington...